Travis Kling (@Travis

Travis Kling

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Travis Kling

@Travis_Kling

Host - @thingshiddenio. Founder - @ikigai_fund. God exists.

Austin, TX

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Joined September 2017

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Travis Kling
@Travis_Kling
Jun 4
Episode 25 of Things Hidden is live! In this episode, we review a discussion with well-known panpsychist philosopher Philip Goff. Goff was an ardent atheist for decades, and recently converted to Christianity...sort of. This is a deep episode. One of the deepest we've done.🙏
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Travis Kling
@Travis_Kling
Nov 14, 2022
Unfortunately, I have some pretty bad news to share. Last week Ikigai was caught up in the FTX collapse. We had a large majority of the hedge fund’s total assets on FTX. By the time we went to withdraw Monday mrng, we got very little out. We’re now stuck alongside everyone else.
Travis Kling
@Travis_Kling
Jun 10, 2025
Replying to @intern
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Travis Kling
@Travis_Kling
Mar 26, 2021
#Bitcoin is worth a trillion bucks & its never spent a dollar on marketing. Never had a CEO or a board meeting. Never had a budget. Never lobbied. Never done a partnership. Never hired a lawyer or an auditor. Never existed in physical form. We’ve never had anything like it
Travis Kling
@Travis_Kling
Nov 14, 2022
Replying to @Travis_Kling
Finally, please be kind to one another, here and in your daily lives. There's way too many bad people out there for the good people to act shitty too. Have empathy for your fellow humans.
Travis Kling
@Travis_Kling
Nov 14, 2022
Replying to @Travis_Kling
If crypto is to recover and continue on its journey to make the world a better place, I believe the entire concept of trust has to be completely rearchitected. Bitcoin is trustless. Then we built all these trusted things around it, and those things have failed catastrophically.
Travis Kling
@Travis_Kling
Nov 14, 2022
Replying to @Travis_Kling
I’m at a loss for words at the depth & breadth of the pieces of shit that permeate crypto. So many fucking sociopaths were granted the opportunity to do so much damage. It’s hard for me to imagine the space bouncing back quickly from this ordeal. Too many got burned too hard.
Travis Kling
@Travis_Kling
Feb 2, 2024
🚨🚨Today I'm publishing my thesis on what I think could be the defining feature of the next 12-24 months in crypto. Settle in, this is a long one. The thesis is called: "A Lack of Pretense That Any of This Shit Does Anything or Will Ever Do Anything" Not financial advice.
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Travis Kling
@Travis_Kling
Nov 14, 2022
Replying to @Travis_Kling
It was entirely my fault and not anyone else’s. I lost my investors’ money after they put faith in me to manage risk and I am truly sorry for that. I have publicly endorsed FTX many times and I am truly sorry for that. I was wrong.
Travis Kling
@Travis_Kling
Nov 14, 2022
Replying to @Travis_Kling
It’s obvious now that the space has not done enough to identify and expel bad actors. We’re letting way too many sociopaths get way too powerful and then we all pay the price. If Ikigai continues on, we pledge to fight harder in this regard. It’s a fight worth fighting.
Travis Kling
@Travis_Kling
Nov 7, 2023
Today marks the one year anniversary of the worst day of my career and one of the worst days of my life - the day FTX froze withdrawals.
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Travis Kling
@Travis_Kling
Mar 4, 2024
🚨🚨 Today I'm publishing part 2 of my thesis. Get comfy. This is prob a 15 minute read. It's called- Financial Nihilism: The Zeitgeist of Young America
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Travis Kling
@Travis_Kling
Aug 16, 2025
Impossible to overstate the significance of this event. Every. Single. Thing. In your life is different because of this.
Watcher.Guru
@WatcherGuru
Aug 15, 2025
54 years ago today, President Nixon suspended the convertibility of the US dollar into gold.
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Travis Kling
@Travis_Kling
Mar 15, 2020
Quantitative Easing is universal basic income for rich people.